WordPress is known for its ease of installation. It is simple to install and takes less than five minutes in most cases. Many web hosts offer tools to automatically install WordPress (such as Fantastico or Softaculous). If you want to install WordPress yourself, the instructions below will guide you.
Choose the Right Host
Before proceeding with the manual installation of WordPress, you first need a domain name for your site, which you can purchase from a domain registrar. Next, you need to choose your hosting type. You can choose from the following different hosting types:
- Shared hosting: This is the most affordable way, with sufficient resource levels to start a website as a standalone VSE, SMB or blog;
- VPS (Virtual Private Server) hosting: The resources of a physical server can run multiple virtual servers, this solution offers more security and stability than shared hosting, but it requires configuring your server from scratch ;
- Dedicated hosting: You own all the resources allocated to the server, but you are responsible for the installation and configuration of the software that powers the server.
Installing WordPress on the server
WordPress is known to install in less than 5 minutes! Before doing so, you must have a web host with a database and PHP, here are the minimum requirements:
- PHP version greater than or equal to 7.3 ;
- MySQL version greater than or equal to 4.1.2 ;
- Apache with the mod_rewrite module.
- Go to en.wordpress.org and download the latest version of WordPress and extract it to your hard drive, then create a database for WordPress on your server, giving MySQL full access and modifications.
- Drag and drop the WordPress files via FTP (Filezilla) to the desired location on the server:
If you want to place WordPress at the root of your domain (e.g. http://www.monsite.com/), move the entire contents of the unzipped WordPress directory (except for the directory itself) to the root of your server (usually www or internet)
Run the WordPress installation script from your web browser:
- If you have installed WordPress in the root directory: /monsite.com/wp-admin/install.php
- For a subdirectory named blog: /monsite.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php
- If you are installing for the first time, you can simply enter the URL of your site and the script will launch itself
Installing WordPress
After you’ve downloaded everything, just enter your site name (domain name) in the URL address bar (for example: www.tout-savoir.net), and you’ll see the WordPress installation interface appear automatically.
- WordPress will tell you what it needs before it begins the installation.
- Once you have all these items ready, you can click “Let’s go!”.
- Next, you need to know the database connection details.
- Get the database name you may have created earlier and the user you will enter in Database Name and User Name respectively.
For the database address, you can keep “localhost”. In this case, the server will take its own address.
Then click on Verify so that WordPress can connect to your database.
- Great, you’ve just completed the first step, congratulations!
- Now you can click on “Start Installation”.
- There you go, WordPress is installed, congratulations! !
- You can now start configuring your account.
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